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Scarborough queer artists challenging oppression through art

সাবধান / SHABDHAN (“careful”) is a collaborative artwork by queer Bangladeshi artists L. Akhter and namrata. Part of the Mayworks Festival, the installation and accompanying poem is displayed at the easternmost Scarborough subway station, central to the homes, workplaces, and lives of South Asian migrant and marginalized people. Spring member Sarah Shahid spoke to the artists to understand the context of the art that explores surveillance faced by Bengali communities.

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